I have installed the 30 day trail version of Twonky 7.0.9 special on the My Book Live drive and am having trouble getting any videos to play. Had this problem back when version 5 of Twonky was on the drive so really no change. Followed Dav-M's procedure and do indeed seem to have the correct version of Twonky installed. I can access the web interface via the GUI and via the ip:9000 web page. When I look at sharing>media receivers on the ip:9000 interface I can see the list get populated and then shrink. Seems like I have read that this is not a big issue, but more of an annoyance. Although the Bluray player does disappear from the list. In the settings>media tab of the GUI on the WD My Book Live the Bluray player stays around and is not blocked. I have edited 2 files with nano via terminal on my mac. One is the sony bluray.xml file where I have commented out a few lines (sorry I don't seem to be able to post links to this wiki yet since I'm a newbie) and I changes the parameters to fixed in another file (forget exactly what that was right now, but might have been that same file…yes?
All of this does not seem to hall with the playing of videos. I have a .mkv, .mov, .divx, .you name it on the drive and none will play. Any thoughts about what might be going wrong? The message I get is something along the lines of corrupt or missing file

ok, thanks. I think I saw your post about the config.js file, but where the heck do I find that file!? been poking around with terminal but am not very good at it just trying cd /some directories and then ls but no config.js file

Hey, thanks so much! Found the config.js file and modified it as per your instructions. Certainly keeps the list of media receivers from fading. However the list of media receivers on the ip:9000 web page does not match the list of media players on the Twonky GUI at just ://myip. Don't know if this was the case before or not. The Bluray player still gives me the error message and the other thing I have noticed is that on the list on the bluray player of available locations for videos there is my library at Twonky and then there is something called Media Server. they have the same MAC address. This is one thing that had made me think that I had two instances of Twonky running, but have not seen this in terminal.

The bluray player is a sony bdp-s590 but am unsure of the firmware version on it. Need to poke around more to see where that is stored on the bluray menus

need to undo the changes to the xml file from last night and then check into the 7.0.12 version

Glad to hear you were able to apply the fix for the media receiver list

I would do a reset on the clients, by clicking the "reset list" button on the media receiver page
to take eroneous items out of the equation

As for seeing the list of media receivers on the ip:9000 web page
that does not match the list of media players on the Twonky GUI at just ://myip
im a little confused by that, but I think I know what your seeing, but note sure
but maybe the reset list will help clear that up
as I think you are refereing to the WD Admin Web Interface and the Twonky Web Interface
where in the WD gui its "supposed" to be pulling the data from the Twonky gui
I would not rely on the WD gui for that, the Twonky is the one that I would use
as the WD was coded by WD for 5.x and we are now on 7.x
some things are the same some things are different, etc.
and without knowing exacly what the WD gui is doing, I dont trust/rely on it

I'll try and look up what the "sony bdp-s590" actually supports officially via dlna
and see if we can help with that

Made the changes to the sony blurary player.xml file and things are sort of looking better. Was able to download an example of a movie from one of the sony sites and get it (a .mpg file) to stream from the MY Book to the bluray player. It was very choppy which sounds like a network issue and I guess mpg might be the format I need to use. I thought I could use other formats, need to investigate.

What the ADDITIONAL_MPEG_RES does is to tell the client that every media item
also has an mpeg extention, which is done as some/most sony clients will only play mpeg
even though the sony manual might state otherwise, its a sony thing
so for some sony clients its best to use it, and for some its not

<DeviceQuirks>
<Quirk>ADDITIONAL_MPEG_RES</Quirk>
</DeviceQuirks>

The quirk can be, but not always, the issue at play with the sony blueray and twonky
So for ease of testing, I usually just ask people to try the Sony AV Receiver client profile
which saves them the hassle of haveing to edit the Sony Blu-Ray Player client profile

the Sony BR is wired to airport extreme which is wireless to the netgear router in another part of the house. The netgear router does have a dual 2GHz, 5GHz feature. Might be able to set it that the BR player uses just the 5GHz channel, and all other traffic is on the 2GHz channel. The Sony BR is new (2 weeks) and I might consider returning it for a different brand. I honestly just looked at the price and for some DLNA logo when I bought it. Our TV does not have a wireless feature (Vizio LED). Any recs for a better BR player that isn't too pricey? Suppose that I could go with a device like a Roku or Apple TV, but then I'd be using our old DVD player.

I can't get the Sony_AV_Receiver designation to stick in the pop-up on the ip:9000 interface. Might just try modifying the Sony_Blu-Ray_Player.xml file with the quirk issue.

I took the plunge a long time ago into this whole dlna thing and video encoders

Prior to the whole dlna concept I knew my video encodes would bear fruit some day
My entire collection is in mp4 format that allows me to use any client that can play them
which is about 90% of them out there. makes it easier on me and the family
as I dont have to play tech support or worry about playback issues or quality
(I chose very generic encoder settings for compatability and quality)

Im currently pre-encoding all of my videos into mp4 containers with AVC video and ACC/AC3 audio
and have been doing this with handbrake for while, prior to that it was mencoder and ffmpeg
prior to that I used to create DVD/SCVD's with TMPGencoder (a long time ago)

As the price dropped for storage and cpu's got faster, things got a whole lot faster and cheaper to do
which is where the MP4 world became a viable reality for me and many others

Sure there is the whole MKV thing, which does help a lot, thing "MakeMKV"
I know there is a learning curve with doing your own encodes
So for those that dont have the cpu power or tools or knowledge
its best to get a dedicated streamer that can play anything
as it helps take the burden off of the dlna server and having to deal with re-encodes etc.

Well the My Book Live seems to have semi-bricked it self. Don't know if it is connected to the ssh changes I have been making or not. I am no longer able to get the dashboard to fully load and the check box for enabling ssh doesn't tell the drive to allow me to access it via terminal. The green light on the front is continuously blinking and so I'm going to go ahead and send it back to WD for a "new" one. No different if I directly connect with ethernet to a computer. Blah!